Form validation with redirect

Redirecting is never the solution ... every single time I see a thread with a title similar to this one, I know the OP is doing something wrong.

You can use JavaScript to scroll down in case of an error.

Thanks for that advice. I thought it would be neater to achieve the scrolling result from the controller method without resorting to javascript but if javascript is the best solution, so be it.

It's very simple if you think about it ... You want to trigger a scroll event, that's an event in the browser and the browser can only be controller by JavaScript.

The fact that browsers would scroll to a given section within a document after a page is loaded is cool indeed, but you should only use that to give links to other people.